April 2017

A lot has changed for me in the past year. New job, new relationship, new goals and along with those things, a new awareness of myself. I’ve written a lot before about my tussles with my anxiety goblin and my daily pill-popping, but I’ve never written before about my body. I suspect this is because I’ve always felt ashamed of it and hopeless about it in a way that I never felt about my mental health. But, in this season of new discoveries that I’m experiencing, both ...

Just a little post today to share with you a new lil’ discovery- FUNKIN COCKTAILS! Now, I’m all for a product that makes drinking cocktails easy. I mean, at the end of a long day, who can actually be arsed to get shakers, strainers, mixers, muddlers and all manner of cocktail accoutrements out? This is why, more oft than not, I end up just cracking open a GinInATin and slugging that back. However, I had a little delivery but t’other day which has made whipping up a ...

As an anxiety sufferer I have a whole host of techniques, methods and mechanisms in place to help reel in my worry if it ever starts to career out of control (i.e often). However, lots of these take time, effort and equipment- working on a project, turning off my phone and settling down with a book or baking for example. But what happens when anxiety strikes suddenly in the middle of your day AS IS IT’S WONT. The truth is, we can’t always apply our tried and tested methods of ...

Well, the sun has begun to shine, the wild flowers are in bloom and pub gardens are slowly starting to fill up. This can only mean one thing- festival season will soon be upon us! I won’t lie- I’ve never actually been to festival. I know it makes me sound like a spoiled little princess but I just hate camping. The whole idea of being DAMP all the time…nah, that is not for this hun. Luckily, last week home store haven Habitat had me covered when I went along to their ...